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<p>A default constructor is a constructor which can be called with no arguments (either defined with an empty parameter list, or with default arguments provided for every parameter). A type with a public default constructor is <a href="../concept/DefaultConstructible.html" title="cpp/concept/DefaultConstructible"><code>DefaultConstructible</code></a>.
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="default_constructor.html%23Syntax"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Syntax</span></a></li>
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<span class="editsection">[<a href="http%3A//en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php" title="Edit section: Syntax">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Syntax">Syntax</span>
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<td> <code><b>ClassName</b></code> <code><b>(</b></code> <code><b>)</b></code> <code><b>;</b></code>
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<td> <code><b>ClassName()</b></code> <code><b>=</b></code> <code><b>default</b></code> <code><b>;</b></code>
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<span class="t-li">1)</span> Declaration of a default constructor</div>
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<span class="t-li">2)</span> Definition of the constructor outside the class body</div>
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<span class="t-li">3)</span> Inhibiting the automatic generation of a default constructor</div>
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<span class="t-li">4)</span> Explicitly forcing the automatic generation of a default constructor</div>
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<p>The default constructors are called during <a href="default_initialization.html" title="cpp/language/default initialization">default initializations</a> and <a href="value_initialization.html" title="cpp/language/value initialization">value initializations</a>.
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<p>If no user-defined constructors of any kind are provided for a class type (<span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw1">struct</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw1">class</span></span></span>, or <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw1">union</span></span></span>), the compiler will always declare a default constructor as an <code>inline public</code> member of its class. 
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<p>If the implicitly-declared default constructor is not deleted or trivial, it is defined (that is, a function body is generated and compiled) by the compiler, and it has exactly the same effect as a user-defined constructor with empty body and empty initializer list. That is, it calls the default constructors of the bases and of the non-static members of this class.
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<p>The implicitly-declared or defaulted default constructor for class <code>T</code> is <span class="t-rev-inl t-rev-inl-until-cxx11"><span> undefined </span><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-until-cxx11">(until C++11)</span></span></span><span class="t-rev-inl t-rev-inl-since-cxx11"><span>defined as <i>deleted</i></span><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-cxx11">(since C++11)</span></span></span> if any of the following is true:
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<ul><li> <code>T</code> is a <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw1">union</span></span></span> and all of its variant members are <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi cpp source-cpp"><span class="kw4">const</span></span></span>.
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<p>The default constructor for class <code>T</code> is trivial (i.e. performs no action) if all of the following is true:
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<ul><li> <code>T</code> has no non-static members with brace-or-equal initializers.
</li></ul>
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<td><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-cxx11">(since C++11)</span></td>
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<li> Every direct base of <code>T</code> has a trivial default constructor
</li>
<li> Every non-static member of class type has a trivial default constructor
</li>
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<p>A trivial default constructor is a constructor that performs no action. Objects with trivial default constructors can be created by using <a href="reinterpret_cast.html" title="cpp/language/reinterpret cast">reinterpret_cast</a> on any suitably aligned storage, e.g. on memory allocated with <span class="t-lc"><a href="../memory/c/malloc.html" title="cpp/memory/c/malloc">std::malloc</a></span>. All data types compatible with the C language (POD types) are trivially default-constructible.
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<span class="editsection">[<a href="http%3A//en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php" title="Edit section: Example">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Example">Example</span>
</h3>
<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi" style="text-align: left;"><div class="cpp source-cpp"><pre class="de1"><span class="kw1">struct</span> A <span class="br0">{</span>
    <span class="kw4">int</span> x<span class="sy4">;</span>
    A<span class="br0">(</span><span class="kw4">int</span> x <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="nu0">1</span><span class="br0">)</span> <span class="sy4">:</span> x<span class="br0">(</span>x<span class="br0">)</span> <span class="br0">{</span><span class="br0">}</span> <span class="co1">// user-defined default ctor</span>
<span class="br0">}</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="kw1">struct</span> B <span class="sy4">:</span> A <span class="br0">{</span>
    <span class="co1">// B::B() is implicitly-defined, calls A::A()</span>
<span class="br0">}</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="kw1">struct</span> C <span class="br0">{</span>
    A obj<span class="sy4">;</span>
    <span class="co1">// C::C() is implicitly-defined, calls A::A()</span>
<span class="br0">}</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="kw1">struct</span> D <span class="sy4">:</span> A <span class="br0">{</span>
    D<span class="br0">(</span><span class="kw4">int</span> y<span class="br0">)</span> <span class="sy4">:</span> A<span class="br0">(</span>y<span class="br0">)</span> <span class="br0">{</span><span class="br0">}</span>
    <span class="co1">// D::D() is not declared because another constructor exists</span>
<span class="br0">}</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="kw1">struct</span> E <span class="sy4">:</span> A
<span class="br0">{</span>
    E<span class="br0">(</span><span class="kw4">int</span> y<span class="br0">)</span> <span class="sy4">:</span> A<span class="br0">(</span>y<span class="br0">)</span> <span class="br0">{</span><span class="br0">}</span>
    E<span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span> <span class="sy1">=</span> <span class="kw1">default</span><span class="sy4">;</span> <span class="co1">// explicitly defaulted, calls A::A()</span>
<span class="br0">}</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
 
<span class="kw1">struct</span> F <span class="br0">{</span>
    <span class="kw4">int</span><span class="sy3">&amp;</span> ref<span class="sy4">;</span> <span class="co1">// reference member</span>
    <span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">int</span> c<span class="sy4">;</span> <span class="co1">// const member</span>
    <span class="co1">// F::F() is implicitly declared as deleted</span>
<span class="br0">}</span><span class="sy4">;</span>
 
<span class="kw4">int</span> main<span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span>
<span class="br0">{</span>
    A a<span class="sy4">;</span>
    B b<span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="co1">//  D d; // compile error</span>
    E e<span class="sy4">;</span>
<span class="co1">//  F f; // compile error</span>
<span class="br0">}</span></pre></div></div>

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